Awesome recap of the Women's Ruby and Rails Workshop that I worked on:

On Friday and Saturday, August 17-18, a group of volunteers from the Boston Ruby community ran a free two-day introductory Ruby and Rails workshop for women and their friends. (Women were automatically allowed to apply for a spot, while men were allowed to apply if they knew a woman who was going to attend.) Forty-four beginners, 36 of them women, attended the workshop at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A team of 17 experienced Ruby programmers assisted them through software installation, lectures and exercises. Students who had never written a line of code struggled for the first time with the command line, text editors, Git, the HTTP protocol, irb, and Heroku. By 4:30pm on Saturday, the students were tired from the exertion. But every student left the workshop with all the tools and concepts needed to write and deploy Rails applications.